In higher education, as in so many other areas of our lives, the COVID-19 virus has turned the world upside down. At least in the short term the impossible has…
[For some time two concerns have hovered in the back of my consciousness: the total inability of contemporary culture to generate visions of a positive future and the absence of…
I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings. Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me.…
We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone. They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other…
Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I…
The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions. But in…
The United States has been waged more major wars during my life time, than in any comparable period of American history. I have somehow survived World War II, Korea,…
I have been told that this little story is true. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy, but its importance lies, not in its historicity, but rather in…
DECODING CULTURAL CAPITAL “How hard is it to raise one’s hand, to approach an instructor after class, or to come to office hours to discuss a difficult assignment?” Let’s…
But the saga of Math 100, described in the previous entry, was not over. There was a final piece of the story to be revealed. At my fiftieth high school reunion I…